FIFA 15 Guide – Career Mode tips

In FIFA 15’s career mode it’s important to get off to the best possible start. We’ve put together a list of hints and tips that should ensure you have the knowledge to do the best with your chosen team.

Don’t set too many sub-criteria for your scouts

When searching for a player, you can create a list of sub-criteria for your scouts (pacey, attack-minded etc.). Don’t set more than two or three of these, as your scouts are unlikely to return with any finds from their search. If you’re looking for a very particular type of player, start with the most important features you’re looking for, then scout players further once they bring back suggestions. Even the best scouts fail to bring back talent once your search becomes too specific.

Can’t get an overall rating? Look the player up in another mode

Even after you ask your scout to look over a player, it’s rare that they will give you an overall rating. You can look at all the individual stats of a player in your scout’s report, but if you still want to get a general sense of his overall rating, have a cheeky look at him in exhibition mode. This is a bit of a cheat, and ratings can fluctuate over time in career, but it will give you a good sense of how good this player really is, and could save you from an embarrassing transfer blunder (even the best of us are vulnerable – Sir Alex Ferguson bought Bebe once).

If the player has switched clubs during your time in career mode, meaning you can’t find him in exhibition, look him up on the internet to see where he currently plies his trade and voila.

Don’t treat it like a management sim

As admirable as it is to buy young talent, bleed them into the first team and build your own superstars, this isn’t Football Manager. Player development is slow, so buying a hot young prospect isn’t always the best idea, especially if you’re a team in need of a solid season. Buy players that will improve your team now, and leave the future prospects to the youth academy system.

Get good scouts

This applies to both the Global Transfer Network and Youth Academy. More than ever you are reliant on the word of your scouts, so make sure they know what they’re talking about. Good scouts are expensive, but worth the initial investment if it means they will bring you that great talent for a bargain.

Don’t leave players in the academy

Player potential will never fulfil it unless you bring them into the full squad and send them out on loan for a couple of seasons. Development will be much faster playing regular football than in the youth squad. Sign a promising youngster to a professional contract, then send him to whoever will take him for a season.

Don’t simulate when in poor form

When you’re struggling to win games and players are on a poor run of form, don’t start simming matches in the hope the computer will drag you out of the stretch. In my time as Manchester United, I simmed (and lost) to Hull, Southampton, Reading and Sunderland (twice). Play matches until your luck turns around and players start hitting their stride, then you’re more likely to get the right result when you sim matches.

Sim with form players, play with good ones

Player form is one of the new features in FIFA 15 career mode, and has a strong impact on the way players perform. But, ultimately, you control the team. When you are playing a game, select the best team at your disposal and feel most comfortable deploying, regardless of form. If you play well, those players enduring a dip will soon improve. When simming matches, lesser players enjoying great form will be more likely to get the result than good players underachieving.

Thanks, I just wish the scouts would be able to find an overall, if there good enough.

Brett Phipps

Yeah it is a pain, but once a player is scouted you can view most or all of his attributes. Take a look and see if he has the stats that you’re looking for, because even if the overall isn’t great, he will still have the key skills you want to improve your team.

Tris

Hi,

Any tips on getting your youth players out on loan? No one ever seems interested in mine.. Even those with massive potentials! Or is it just down to luck?

Brett Phipps

Yeah I think a lot of this is down to luck. However, there are a few things that I’ve found that seem to tip the odds in your favour:

1. Use the prospects in friendlies and Capital One Cup games. This “puts them in the shop window”, tempting potential suitors.
2. Remove the player from the list, then re-list them a few days afterward.
3. List the player for a short loan, rather than a full season.

Hope this helps!

Andreas

Where do you arrange a friendly match in the career mode??

Carl

Andreas, You don’t the computer automatically does it for you as far as I’m aware just like it did in FIFA 13

bazz

If u set all the players u wanna keep on can’t with other clubs. U will likely receive more loan bids on your youth players..in the summer transfer period i usually loan out around 8 players. Winter period around 4 on a short loan.

I’m manager of Everton. I have made lukaku a bit faster and start the manager mode. Every player in my team is getting better except Lukaku. Can custom players get better in the manager mode?

Ryan

Leave your players in the youth academy until may 1st, on my 1st the grow ~7-12 points. Definitely don’t promote them in April, and unless you need them in your first team, only promote them if you need them on your first team or they ask to come out, promote players on may 2nd.

http://www.sportra.com/fifa-14-career-mode-tips/ Jordan

how do i change the players feelings like some think management is poor how do i change this?

Ryan

If a players morale is low because they think management is poor then praise them at a press conference

MARK

HI I NEED HELP BIG TIME. ON MY FIFA 2014 ON PLAYSTATION 2, IN THE CARER MANAGERS MODE, WHEN I PRESS WATCH MATCH, AND MOVE CONTROL TO THE CENTRE OF THE SCREEN IT DOESNT WORK. COULD IT BE MY CONTROLERS WHICH ARE DUAL SHOCK 2. OR DO I HAVE TO CHANGE SOMETHING IN THE SETTINGS. IN NEED OF YOUR HELP. MARK

Danny

Have got an xbox 360 and I can’t save my career mode it’s saying I have to have a profile and I have got one can I only save it when have got the internet :/

Patrick

So i have a question, i am playing in a manager career in xbox and i created a custom player then i created a new career but in my career he doesn’t show up in the manegment not even in the reserves. What do i do?

Owen

You need to change the Squads to ‘Current Customised’ and then start your career

Jim

when you start the career, make sure you start with ‘current customised squads’ in the options you choose when it’s being set up

neelkanth

when you are starting a career make sure that you set ‘squads used’ to coustom

Felicia

I can’t make a trade! Ps4 career mode :(! Help!!!

RyanHartley

Why can’t I manage any other teams ? I win the premier league and champions league with every team I go to yet no teams ever come in for me or when I apply for some , non ever offer me a position , can some one give me anytips ?

Greg

I have a question. Does any one know if a player’s rating will increase if I play them in a different position to their normal one?

Greg

That the computer says they can’t play in

Jacob

I’ve been doing GK career mode and the defence always clears the enemy’s out of our half even when I put a league 2 team in the premiership I’m in my 5th game and am yet to even hold the ball

Logan

I have fifa 14 for ps4. When I choose manager career and pick a team and I choose current customised for squad used and i push advance and a caption comes up. It says “current customised squads are not eligible for leaderboards” and it just loads the default squad. How can I use my custom squad on career manager mode?